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Why are network speeds measured in Kbits/sec instead of KBytes/sec?
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Mar 15, 20267115 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Why is network throughput measured in KBits/sec? It seems like it would make more sense to have it in KBytes/sec. You'd avoid angry users, and save a lot of headache converting between the two. Is it just advertising, or what?
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Most data communication is serial, one bit at a time. There are no bytes on the wire, a byte is a a parallel arrangement that exists inside a computer. It's the size of the ALU on old CPUs. On the wire you may have "octets", but no Bytes. So the spe…
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